1.\" 2.\" $FreeBSD$ 3.\" 4.\" Copyright (c) 2009, 2010 Marc Balmer <marc@msys.ch> 5.\" 6.\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any 7.\" purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above 8.\" copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies. 9.\" 10.\" THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES 11.\" WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF 12.\" MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR 13.\" ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES 14.\" WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN 15.\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF 16.\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. 17.\" 18.Dd December 27, 2009 19.Dt WAKE 8 20.Os 21.Sh NAME 22.Nm wake 23.Nd send Wake on LAN frames to hosts on a local Ethernet network 24.Sh SYNOPSIS 25.Nm 26.Op Ar interface 27.Ar lladdr 28.Op Ar lladdr ... 29.Sh DESCRIPTION 30The 31.Nm 32program is used to send Wake on LAN (WoL) frames over a local 33Ethernet network to one or more hosts using their link layer (hardware) 34addresses. 35WoL functionality is generally enabled in a machine's BIOS 36and can be used to power on machines from a remote system without 37having physical access to them. 38.Pp 39.Ar interface 40is an Ethernet interface of the local machine and is used to send the 41Wake on LAN frames over it. 42If there is only one Ethernet device available that is up and running, then the 43.Ar interface 44argument can be omitted. 45.Ar lladdr 46is the link layer address of the remote machine. 47This can be specified as the actual hardware address 48(six hexadecimal numbers separated by colons) 49or as a hostname entry in 50.Pa /etc/ethers . 51.Nm 52accepts multiple 53.Ar lladdr 54addresses. 55Link layer addresses can be determined and set using 56.Xr ifconfig 8 . 57.Sh FILES 58.Bl -tag -width "/etc/ethers" -compact 59.It Pa /etc/ethers 60Ethernet host name data base. 61.El 62.Sh SEE ALSO 63.Xr ethers 5 , 64.Xr ifconfig 8 65.Sh AUTHORS 66.Nm 67was written by 68.Ar Marc Balmer Aq Mt marc@msys.ch . 69